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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-04-13

THE NAVY MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION has elected
the following officers for the ensuing year: Capt
r. W. Meade president; Chief Engineer w. H. Har-
ris, first vice-president; Commander W. NJ. Folger,
second Vlce-pres1dent, and PaymaSter H. r.
Stanclif1e, secretary and treasurer.
THE REVISED NAVY REGISTER is being printed
at the Government Printing Office. 1t will be
ready for issue within two weeks. The comics OF
the first edition still held up at the Navy De-
partment, and will be sold for waste paper The
principal change is the addition OF a column in
which the dates OF the promotions Of each officer
are given.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24
Bill Nye's Cow for Sale.

Bill Nye publishes the following ad-
vertisement which we copy gratuitious
ly out of regard for his patriotic ser
vices: Owing to i'll health | will sell
at my residence in town 20, range IS,
West, according to Government sur
vey, one crushed-raspberry colored
COW, aged E years. She is a good
miikster and is not afraid of cars-or
anything else. She is a COW Of un-
daunted courage and gives milk fire.
quently. To a man who does not
fear death in any form she would be
a great boon. She is very much at
tached to her home at present, by
means ofa trace chain, but she will be
sold to any one who will agree to treat
her right. She is one-fourth short
horn and three -fourths hyena. Pur-
chaser need not be identified. l will
also throw In double-barre shot gun
which goes with her. In May she
generally goes away somewhere for a
week or two and returns with a tall,
red calf, with long, wabbly legs. Her
name is Rose, and would prefer to
sell her to a nonresident.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24
MY VALEN TINE.

BY LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON.
What would l have thee, other than thou
art,
To win my whole SOULS love and bless
my days?
What other eyes could SO fitly praise?
Blue as blue flUwerS-now dim with tears
that start
For gentle pity from thy gentle heart,
Then glad with smiles, as when d master
plays
On answering chords, or DER the wind
harp strays
Some wind that laughs to come and grieycs
to part.
How shall 1 fifty praise thy true souls
truth,
Thy scorlhof what is base, thy love of
good
Thy wit and wisdom that with grace
combine,
The glow and courage of thy fearless youth,
Thy strength and nobleness of woman
hood
The blessed whole of my dear Valentine?
-Touth's Companion.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24
HENDERSON. N. c.. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY "A, 1887
slay some remorseless and conscience
leg r,aSsepoer with q cwipoIetree

slay some remorseless and conscience
less passenger with swingletree.
That General Hazen is much to
blame for the weather we are having is
certain. He is supposed to run the
weather bureau in Washington, and
though he never fails to be around, by
proxy, on pay day, he is not doing
much else for the country just now. In
fact he is gailavanting in Europe, do
ing the grand tour, hob-nobbing with
the nobility and gentry of those ef1ete
countries and not caring a continental
whether school keeps or not. He GER
tainly did leave one of his apprentices,
a young man whose experience of a
weather mandatory had been gained
n search for the North pole, to run
the machinery in his absence, but the
result has been a dismal failure. The
substitute evidently does not know all
the stops, valves and cogs of the ma
chine and he has got it SO tangled up
that unless Hazen comes home quickly
or an experienced aneroid barometer
pirate like Vennor takes his place, we
shall be having frozen sunstrokes hand
ed out to the public and the daily pre-
dictions will become as demoralized
and unreliable as a fifteen for quarter
cigar or a Doodle alderman when he is
trying to pose as much maligned but
innocent martyr.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24
solid GOLD WATCHES.

/ offer thu following most aoonde1Jul
and ertrGord.mary bargains:
Ladies' Fme Gold Etgin Watch, beau,
tifully engraved hunting case, for S33
the usual retail nrice i> SIS.
a La'ii-'s Gold E'giD Watch. handsome
1y engraved hunting case, fer SO; the
usual retail price is $50
Ladies' Elegant Gold hunting case
Waltham Watch, for S34; the usual re-
tail price j. $40
Gents Go d Waltham Watch, fancy
engravf@ hunting case. full Ruby lew.
eled, adjusted to- heat, cold and position,
for Sal usual price l. SO
Gents handso nelly engraved Gold
hunting case Eign Watch for S36. usu
al retail price j. S65.
Gents Gold Filed Watch for Sl6 usu
al price S,5.
Gents Cod Filled Watch. hands ONE.
ly engraved hun'in C .se, for SIS: reyu
lar retail price $40
All The above Watches are Stem,
winders, with Patent S ,fety Pinions ant
Compers ,ting Balance.
If you want a really FINE. HAND
SOME va TClR at haf price, now |.
the TO secure it. Now is your time to
get BARGAIN, for such another
opp rtuniIy may not occur again il
your lifetime.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24
NO. 8.

follows The spring time has now
come. The ground is we'll settled
and warm. The grass seeds have
sprouted, and can be easily killed out.
The heavy rains that bake the ground
after running it together have passed.
Now prepare another bed, just as is
ordinarily prepared for sowing the
seed, and reset these plants in it in
rows at least three inches apart. Take
up the small plants by running a
sharp spade under them, about one
inch under the surface of the ground,
taking up all the dirt with the roots.
Hold the spade full of plants near the
surface of the new bed, and, with
long knife, cut square down through
the plants and dirt to the spade, halt
inch from the front edge of plant sod,
and slide the strip of plants and earth
oil where you want to grow in the new
bed, without disturbing the roots.
Move the spade to the and of the
plant row thus started to another sec
tion of the plants. and so continue
the process until all the plants have
been thus removed. Fill the dirt in
between the rows up level with the
plants, and water thoroughly and can
vas as before.
When the leaves of the plants are as
large as a dime, take dry stable
manure, pulverize it thoroughly, and
sprinkle it over the plants until they
are almost hid by it, water well with
sprinkiing pot, and you need not
fear having early and vigorous plants.
BY this means you obviate the neces-
slty OF having to weed your plants,
and at the same time have good loose
soil for them, SO that they will grow
more rapidly and can be pulled up
without the loss of the small fibrous
roots. A careful hand can set these
plants out in the field without the loss
OF a single one from the mere trans
planting.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24
The Printing Press.

The printing press has made presi-
dents, killed poets, furnished bustles
for beauties, and polished genius with
criticism. 1t has made worlds get up
at roll-call every morning, giving the
pulpit lungs of iron and voice OF
steam. 1t has set price on a bushel
of wheat and made the country post
Office the glimmering goal of the rural
scribe. 1t has curtailed the power OF
kings, embellshed the pantry shelves,
and bursted rings; it has converted
bankers into paupers, made sawyers of
college presidents: it has educated the
homeless and robbed the philosopher
of his reason. 1t smiles and kicks,
cries and dies, but it can't be run to
suit everybody and the editor is a fool
who tries it.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24
THERE is quite as much of truth {

THERE is quite as much of truth as
force in the following paragraph from
the Bellefontaine, Ohio, Examiner.
1t says: Gen. Longstreet, in a recent
contribution to the Century, attempts
to exalt his own military capacity and
consequence at the expense of Gen.
Lee. Gen. Longstreet, by his re-
creancy to honor and to principle, is a
self-convicted renegade and craven,
and as such can never impress either
himself or his opinions favorably upon
public sentiment, North or South. The
American people will never, by any
estimate of Longstreet, made from any
standpoint, raise him to the boot-tops
of Gen. Lee.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24
WOMAN'S BETTER SELF.
The Coming Of q Summer Day.
lRev. William S. Lacy in North Carolina
Teacher.1

Teacher.l
Contemplate with me that daily
miracle of nature, as it appears On these
sweet June mornings-''dark summer
dawns, as Tennyson finely phrases it.
or as l witnessed it few days past
You step forth from the confined all
of your chamber; the first sensation i:
that of delicious GOODNESS and exhila
ration; the sky is without speck OF
stain; the stars twinkle industriously in
the ebon vault, their myriad eyes
cleaning like FIRE. As your question
ing soul looks up in mute admiration,
they are silent; the winds are whist:
the woods are still; the flowers are
heavy with dew and the air with fra
GRANGE. In the east hangs low the
decadent moon, glittering silver
sickle on black ground. As her es-
cort royal guard of stars appears;
the golden lamp of Venus burns with
intense and steady blaze, revealing her
conscious beauty; her companion, the
mighty and more distant Jupiter, with
smaller, but not less brilliant beam,
while Saturn, almost eclipsed by their
lustre, is barely seen, point of light
far away.
+ But 10! their splendors pale. Along
the horizon is faint glirnmer Of gray.
You glance upward and find that the
ebon hue of the vault is gone; the stars
wax dim and slowly fade from view.
'.The ancient moon hangs on its neither horn
A frighted ghost"
The skies grow lighter and blue.
Again you turn your eye to the COM
ing morn. "Streaks of light-God' S
glorious shadow" to use Plato's fine
thought-shoot upward to the zenith
at first colorless, then growing cool
gray, soft pearl, with the faintest hint
of gold and pink-the purest and most
delicate of tints, shaded with the ut
most nicely. 1t is the daily battle Of
light and darkness. Now mist rises,
and stripes of fleece are seen. They
seem the advancing squadrons of the
armies of the king, planting their
white banners on the deserted field, as
the hosts of darkness sullenly retire.
Those white banners suddenly become
rose and fame colored; the whole east
flushes and glows at the coming of her
lord, and while rays of golden glory
from the advancing splendor leap
across the heavens, objects of the dear,
familiar earth come into view-the
dark forest, the old homestead, the
open plain. At length he comesi The
eye of the morn peeps over the eastern
hills!
day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. !"
And now what change greets the
soul There is happy rustic of the
leaves; the joyous breeze springs up to
tell the glad world of the great trans
formation; the flowers bow their sweet
faces as he passes; the marshalled
clouds move steadily, softly onward,
as If IN triumph; there is a noise OF
merry music, happy birds carol in nn-
restrained glee; sounds of hope and
delight fill the enchanted ear and
thrill the soal. All is life, animation,
beautyl
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24
WONDERFUL BARGAINS

We have been making all this talk
simply to get you to looking this way,
and shall be willing to take your pun
ishment, prOUided, we Gail to show yon
BARGAINS almost equal to Gold
Watches at 79 cents. Don't take our
word for it, but come and look for ynur>
selves upon the most ASTO NLSLIING
CHA Noes ever shown to the good peo
pie of this town, in FINE
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24
T. JORDAN,

A I I OR NEY AT LAW,
NOTARY PUBLIC AND PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATORS Vance Co
| ractices in the courts of Vance
Warren, FrankliD, Granville and
erson counties, and in the Supreme
and Federal courts.
OFF En- BurwelPs Brick
Guiiding.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24

Kind words, like the flowers which
thread the arr with adors, and make
earth sweeter and more beautiful, distil
fragrance of sweetest cheer, and
scatter over every trial an aroma like
the angels breathe in Heaven,
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24
WARDS WOES.
MAxGY's, GA, January, lss

MAXEY's, GA, January, 1886.
For tw3lye or tOurtt3u years | have
been a grrat sufferer from a terrible
firm of III ,Od poison which ran into the
secondary, and finally it was pronounced
"A tertiary form. My head, face and
shoulders became aln )st mass of c. r
ruptIhn, and finally the disease CON
rnenced eating away my skull bones.
became so horribly reDuIsive that for
three years L absolutely refused to lei
people sac ne. ! used large qlantitie-
OF most noted bio ID remedies AMI ap,
plled to nearlv all physicians near nie.
but my condition continued To grow
worse, and all said III ust re'y die. My
bones becAm- the seat of excruci 4ung
aches and pains my nights were passed
in misery | GAS re:uced in H,,>h and
strength my kidneys were terribly de,
ranged, aid life became burden to me
rhanced to = an advertisement OF
B. Il. B. and sent one dollar To w G..
Birchnnre u Co.,. merchants If our III ace
and they procured one bottle f ,r M. 1t
was used to decided benefit, and when
eight or ten bottles had been used | was
pronounced sound and well.
Hundreds Of scars can uOW be seen on
M, looking like man who hal BEEN
burned and then restored. Nj case was
we'll known i'll this. county, ahd for the
benefit Of others who may he similarly
affrctei, think it my duty to give the
facts IT, the public, and to extend my
heartfelt thanks for so valuable remedy
l have been well over twelve mnnths.
and no return of the diseas- has occurred
ROBERT WARD.
MAxEY's. GA, January, lo86 I'VE, the
undersigned, know Mfr. Robert Ward,
and lake pleasure in saying that the facts
above stated by him are true, and that
ha AZ f I.a of
Poison We ever knew iu our county and
that he has been cured by the use of b
5. BIB ,tauin B:or d Balm
n. Il. BRIGHG WE'LL Merchant.
W. {. BIRCH MORE II Co, Merchants.
j. II. BRIGH WELL, N d.
JOHN II. HART,
W. b. CAMPBBLL.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24
II E. HIGIT
BIG GOLD RING.
HENDERSON, N. c.

VALUABLE REAL ESTATE FOR
SALE
viii sell one hundred valuable build
ing lots in the town of Henderson,
n. G. Persons wishing 20 purchase viii
do we'll to calland see me. I will make.
tbelsrms easy.
JAS. II. LASSITER,
Henderson 3. Q.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24
Yes, Johnny, marriages do increase
the papa-lation of country.

Yes, Johnny, marriages do increase
the papa-lation of a country.
All the good deeds of a mans life
bear the golden imprint of woman's
blessed influence.
Prayer is the avenue which leads to
God, and the oftener we enter it the
nearer we get to Heaven.
A grain of sand may be the germ OF
a new world, but button in the right
place does more good in the wild rush
ing present.
Virtue is flower which flows IN the
garden of purity, and sheds the most
delightful fragrance that ever sweet
ened home life.
Without woman, mems trials would
be doubled, for he would have to sew
on his own buttons, and would have no
one to complain at.
A serpent's fang is little thing, but
death is frequently its victory. The
smallest thorn of SANDER can ruin for
ever woman's character.
No community can boast of more
than one genius at time, says an ex-
change. Since we've come to think
about it we do feel mighty lonesome,
and often find ourself signing for COM
panionship.
woMAN's. BETTER SELF.
Woman, in her deepest shame and
degradation, holds some keepsake of
her higher and purer existence-some
precious jewel from the magnificent
coronal of her God set womanhood,
and like diamond in the mud, it
will ever and anon flash out from its
dark surroundings, gleamings of an
unquenchable brilliancy, and reveal
the lustrc of that radiant throne from
which it fell.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24

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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
IN NJ. PITTMAN.
ATTORNEY AT Law.

HENDERSON, n. G..
Prompt attention 10 all professional
business. Practices in the State and
Federal cour Is.
Refers by permission 10 Commercial
National Bank and Z. ID. Latta d. Bro.
Charlotte, N. g.; Alfred Williams & Co.
Raleigh. N. c.; ID. Y. Cooper ana Jas.
IL. Lassiter, Henderson, N. &.
OFFICE: Over Jas. IL. Lassiter d Sons
store (nov / o.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24

All who desire full information about
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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24

Read and advertise in the COLD
LEAF.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24
The Bank of Hnderson

HENDERSON. VANCE COUNTY, NC.
General Banking. Exchange and
Collection Husiness.
F1RsT MORTGAGE Loans Negotiated
on good farms for Q term Of years, I'm
sums OF $500 aud upward, at 8 per cent
Interest and moderate charges. Apply 70
WA. II. s. BURGWYN,
At the Bank OF Henderson.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24
A ]. HARRIS,
ATTORNEY AT Law,
HENDERSON. N. G.

Practices in the courts of Vance. Gran.
vile, Warren and FRANK lin counties, aud
in the supreme and Federal courts OF tn,
State.
Ogice: In Cooper Building, over j. L.
ii. Missiiiief's.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-24
FOR REsETTINC.

You will be prepared to say that
the plants are too thick, and that !
don't know what / am writing about,
and the last part Of your conclusion
shall not be controyerted, but unless
you have followed the directions this
tar it is unnecessary for you to b.
instructed any further. If the instruc-
tions have been followed, however,
the conclusion, though a wrong one,
will be almost inevitable. That il
was wrong will soca appear from what
, 1887-11-12
Tho condor of south America.

''If the governments of Chill and of
other South American countries had paid
a bounty Of So a head for dead condors
thirty years ago, as 1 understand they do
now" said the representative of a New
York leather house, II could have made
a fortune in the course of a few months,
and had a heap of fun doing it. Con-
doris were plenty, an along the -Chilian
coast, at any rate, as far back as 1851,
and during the few months that l was in
that country 1 found out a good deal
about them, and could nave made 800
n day.
''The appearance of a hawk circling
about in the air over a poultry yard will
not fill a brood of chickens with more
terror and excitement than will the
shadow of a condor on the wing carry to
a herd of cattle feeding on a Gillian plain,
as the great vulture sweeps down from
his eyrie in the painless Andes to seize
bis prey. The condor, unlike other men,
bers of the vulture family, doesn't wait
for something or somebody to die in order
that he may have his dinner, but if he
don't find a ready made carcass conve
lent on the plain when he is hungry he
proceeds at once to provide the carcass
himself. The herds of cattle that pasture
on the undulating plains lying between
the impenetrable wall of the Andes and
the Pacific's white crested line of surf
offer the condor unrivaled facilities for
carcass making, and, as he is in a state
of chronic hunger, this king of the
feathered race levies constant tribute on
the grazing herds. Thirty years ago it
was no uncommon sight to see a thousand
of these winged freebooters lowering over
the plains, each one ravenous and deter
mined as a dinner robber from the scamp
ering, terror stricken, believing herds
below. The condor was then, as he is
now in a less degree. the greatest enemy
the stock raiser in that portion of South
America had to contend with, and it was
his persistent and destructive raids on
grazing cattle that made him an outlaw
with a price on his head, to be relent-
lessly hunted eve among the many crags
and cloud capped craters where he makes
his home. Ed. Mott in New York Mail
and Express.
, 1887-11-12

Colored people who are ambitious for
association with white people and to escape
the social inferiority of their position in
the United States, should emigrate to
England. In this country there does not
appear to be any prejudice against the
colored brother. In fact, there appears to
be a prejudice in his favor. There are not
many negroes in England in proportion to
the whites, but those who are here appear
to be specially delighted with their situa-
ton. The negroes in England have free
intercourse and companionship with the
whites of n corresponding and even supe-
rior grade of intelligence and education.
l have seen any number of negro men out
walking or riding with white women, well
dressed, respectable and intelligent look
ing.
1t is also common enough to see negro
women attended by clean cut, good look
ing Englishmen. If the negro woman
does not have n white attendant, it is be-
cause she prefers one of her own race. l
have seen q number of negro men and
women in England, but l ave invariably
seen them in company with whites. l do
not remember having seen negro men or
women in company. Having nearly the
entire white population of England to pick
and choose from, they have naturally
shown a discrimination against their own
color. The only noticeable prejudice,
therefore, in England against the negro
comes from the negroes themselves.-T.
c. Crawford In New York World.
, 1887-11-12

BY a farmers door 1 found a tall
branch of oak lying against the porch.
The bark was dry, and the leaves were
shriveled, but the bough had been origin
ally taken green from the tree. These
boughs are discovered against the door
on the morning of the 29th of May, and
are in memory of the escape of King
Charles from his enemies by hiding in
an oak. The village ringers leave them,
and then go the church and ring a peal.
for which they expect cider or small coin
from each loyal persSn honored with an
oak branch. Another custom, infinitely
more ancient, is that of singing to the
apple trees in early spring, so that the
orchards may be induced to bear a good
crop. The singers come round and visit
each orchard; they have a rhyme speci-
ally for the purpose, part of the refrain of
which is that a cup of good cider cannot
do any n harm, a hint which brings out
a canful.-Richard Jefferies in English
Illustrated Magazine.